Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

to suppress the Mana but also made

SSSH!

left arm again, and Alex's arm heated up

Alex's arm wasn't burning

uncomfortably hot, the temperature

left arm wasn't as cold

up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving my arm is the same as the weight of my arm. Because of that, the blasts are quite

I need to test something

left arm with his right

little bit. Just a

SSSSSHH!

head was blown back by the storm coming out of the arm. However, since he had only used a

icicles had

the icicles off his face and looked at

arm probably only heated up by

means that this blast uses the outside temperature as a reference when cooling something, not the arm

arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the blast of air would

chin as a

means the power of this ability relies heavily on my environment. After all, if I were in some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach 40°C, and my opponent would get a comfortable breeze of

around. 'Sure, the creatures living

hot desert wouldn't mind a blast of 30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a -40°C cold

It would simply feel very dull, numbs,

injuries, I can even blast them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would become useless until I healed it, but

Alex scratched his chin.

for this ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me

had been walking all this time, and he

a tree and saw an

gigantic

the hedgehog was calmly munching on the octopus, seemingly without a care in

up to one of the tentacles and saw

tentacles of the octopus, and just

like Alex stood before the fleshy wall

meters long, which simply seemed

jumped onto the tentacle

Alex walked over to the spot where the hedgehog was currently munching away and

eating, but after some seconds,

hedgehog extended its head to Alex and sniffed

a

his body? After all, it was

similar

He hoped not!

hedgehog pulled

it looked at the octopus below

at Alex

the tentacle where Alex had

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

minute of biting, the hedgehog had severed

BANG!

of meters into the distance with a kick from